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From: Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:23:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6F5961.70001@admin-box.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110912015307.67a4b91e@weird.wonkology.org>

On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Francisco Ares writes:
>> Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during
>> boot?
> This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var
> directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be
> worse).
Just wanted to throw in, that on servers I also create a separate
/var/log partition. Reasoning: If your logs fill up /var, than for ex.
mysql won't be able to write anymore. So to decouple systems and
problems even further I have /var and /var/log on separate partitions,
hoping for higher service availability.

Daniel



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-11 23:16 [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition? Francisco Ares
2011-09-11 23:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-11 23:52   ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-11 23:53 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-13 13:23   ` Daniel Troeder [this message]
2011-09-13 15:30     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-09-11 23:54 ` Dale
2011-09-12  0:03   ` Francisco Ares
2011-09-12  0:16     ` Dale
2011-09-12  0:28   ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-09-12  1:07     ` Dale
2011-09-12 12:11     ` Mike Edenfield
2011-09-13  5:52       ` Mick

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